{"id":1806,"date":"2011-10-28T12:49:29","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T10:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=1806"},"modified":"2011-10-28T12:50:12","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T10:50:12","slug":"why-electronic-arts-is-worse-than-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=1806","title":{"rendered":"Why Electronic Arts is worse than Google!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-Post Icon wp-image-1807\" title=\"600px-EA-Logo\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/600px-EA-Logo-64x64.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/600px-EA-Logo-64x64.png 64w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/600px-EA-Logo-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/600px-EA-Logo-480x480.png 480w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/600px-EA-Logo.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 64px) 100vw, 64px\" \/>Battlefield 3 has hit the stores and since yesterday you can activate your<br \/>\npurchased game online. Activate it? Yes, you read right, also EA has started<br \/>\nthe crap with online activation \u00e0 la Ubisoft &amp; Co. &#8211; So playing Battlefield 3<br \/>\nwithout a working activation Server and Origin? Well&#8230; T. s.!<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->But why is Origin (EA&#8217;s answer on Steam) worse than Google? Right question!<\/p>\n<p>While Steam allows you to deactivate any statistics and information gathering about you or your machine, the EULA of EA&#8217;s Origin is more than a slap in the face. Within the EULA EA reserves the right to collect the following (sensitive <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"fire\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/fire-24x24.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" \/>) information about you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Your hardware and the ID&#8217;s of the single components <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-List Bullet wp-image-1808\" title=\"fire\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/fire-24x24.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/fire-24x24.png 24w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/fire.png 64w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 24px) 100vw, 24px\" \/><\/li>\n<li>History paths of the web browser <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"fire\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/fire-24x24.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" \/><\/li>\n<li>IP, MAC and ID of your network card (possibly also the router?) <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"fire\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/fire-24x24.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Gender, Age, Address, Location and zip code<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"fire\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/fire-24x24.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Installed hard- and software <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"fire\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/fire-24x24.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" \/><\/li>\n<li>User stats<\/li>\n<li>Achievements<\/li>\n<li>Get administrative rights and bypass UAC <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"fire\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/fire-24x24.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As you can see, that&#8217;s pretty much information they gather about you and most of it is sensitive information one yould probably not give out to everybody without any doubts.<\/p>\n<p>It almost has the characteristics of a trojan horse! This is for sure not the right way to bind people as customers! And Ubisoft had also problems with their activation methods. I think the sales may get down again and people are seeking for untainted game versions without any online nags and the like in the deep black zones of the world wide web. And in my opinion: No one can blame them!<\/p>\n<p>So your options to play BF3 (and other upcoming EA titles):<br \/>\nEither accept the EULA of Origin or deny buying EA titles until EA gives on and makes Origin only optional and NOT mandatory for playing!<\/p>\n<p>So if you think, Google is the best data collecting machine, then you&#8217;re wrong! EA can do better and they do it with a more perfid method!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Battlefield 3 has hit the stores and since yesterday you can activate your purchased game online. Activate it? Yes, you read right, also EA has started the crap with online activation \u00e0 la Ubisoft &amp; Co. &#8211; So playing Battlefield 3 without a working activation Server and Origin? Well&#8230; T. s.!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,4,3,19],"tags":[1018,1019,1016,1021,2854,1020,1017],"class_list":["post-1806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-2","category-curiosities","category-news","category-thoughts-2","tag-activation","tag-data-mining","tag-ea","tag-eula","tag-games","tag-mandatory","tag-origin-battlefield-3"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}